Vodafone, Three inch towards £15 billlion deal

The on-again, off-again rumours about a UK mobile mega-merger might actually arrive at some sort of conclusion soon.
Vodafone and Three parent CK Hutchison are on the cusp of reaching a deal to merge their operations, creating a new mobile market leader with 28 million customers. So says the Financial Times anyway, which reported (paywall) on Thursday – citing no fewer than three anonymous sources – that an agreement could be announced this month.
The deal under discussion values the